STWR - Share The World's Resources

The benign post-summit headlines conceal the G8's retreat from leadership on climate change. It's time for a global civil-society initiative, says Andrew Pendleton.

Public intellectuals and the Anglo-American left have overlooked the one grievance which cuts across all regimes of the world - namely inflation, especially in vital necessities such as food and fuel costs, writes James Petras.

The geopolitics of oil concerns a strategy of maximum extraction by any means possible, presenting multiple global threats - and the crucial challenge facing humanity of weaning the world from its excessive dependence on fossil fuels, writes John Bellamy Foster.

A detailed analysis of nuclear weapons related developments in south Asia since 1998 - and the contradiction of amassing nuclear arms in a bid to establish peace, by Zia Mian and M. V. Ramana.

Moral panic over knife crime in the UK ignores the link between rampant consumer capitalism and social disintegration, writes Jeremy Seabrook.

With oil supplies peaking in the coming years and uranium following a similar path, the weight of humanity's needs will increasingly fall on coal - and our salvation lies in finding a way back to the pre-ICE era, writes Dilip Hiro.

The G8 climate communique showed that it is trying hard to avoid the necessary radical controls on growth, consumption, profits, and the market that a viable strategy to stave off the looming climate catastrophe will necessitate, writes Walden Bello.

The world economic crisis is at an early stage, manifesting itself primarily in the area of finance, but it will spread from the US to the "new industrial countries" and the global contraction in production will lead to stagflation.

The shift from consumptive, life-threatening growth to improved wellbeing and real quality of life is the key to an environmentally and socially sustainable future - and one which politicians must acknowledge, writes Jonathon Porritt.

Global levels of inequality threaten to halt progress toward economic development and efforts to alleviate deprivation such as the Millennium Development Goals, argues a new report.